victory

«victory» in Mova's school dictionary: winning a game, race, contest, battle or war — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a victory, victories; victory, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A victory is winning a game, race, contest, battle or war. tree →

2) Victory is success in a struggle against something difficult. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sport and PE, a victory is a win for a team. In history, victories end battles and wars. In stories, the hero's victory over the villain is the happy ending. Phrases: «win a victory», «a victory over», «victory for», «a narrow victory», «victory lap».

examples

• Our team celebrated its first victory of the season. tree →
• The knight won a great victory over the dragon. tree →
• It was a narrow victory: 3 goals to 2. tree →
• The runner did a victory lap of the track. tree →
• Learning to swim was a victory for me. tree →
• The soldiers cheered at the news of victory. tree →
• We won 10–4, so our victory was by 6 points. tree →
• It was he, not I, who gained the victory.’ tree →

note

Countable: «a victory, victories» (y changes to ies). Adjective: «victorious»; a winner is a «victor». In maths, the margin of victory is the difference between the two scores.

In the corpora

• Priya won and did a long victory dance right in front of the TV.
• And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
• And the LORD gave victory to David whithersoever he went.
• Who hath raised up one from the east, at whose steps victory attendeth?
• The LORD hath brought forth our victory; come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «victory» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.